Improvement in the manufacture op paint and varnish



-' Ifiitiitttl swa GEORGE FREDERICK CORNELIUS, OF WESTMINSTER, 'GREATBRITAIN.

Letters Patent No. 106,784, dated August 30. 1870.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame,

I, -GEORGE FREDERICK CORNELIUS, of 'Great Queen street, in the city of\Vestminster and Kingdom of Great Britain, have invented certainImprovements in the Manufacture of Paint and Varnish, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The improvements consist in the treatment, for the purposesof-manutacturing paint and varnish therefrom, of the mineral andvegetable substances formed and found in the residuum or dreg's left inthe process manufacturing varnish, as ordinarily performed.

The improvements may be performed as follows:

I put in a suitable copper or pot ten hundred weight (out) oftheaboveresiduum'or'dregs, adding thereto five gallons of linseed orotheroil; I then boil the mass until the whole of the water isevaporated, taking great care that the boiling is gradual, and thetemperature does not exceed 300 Fahrenheit, or the product will bechemically altered in character. After the evaporation is complete, Icause the remitant mass to be continually stirred and gradually raisethe temperature from 300 to 400 Fahrenheit. When the latter heat isobtained, I immediatelydraw the fires, and quickly strain the contentsof the cop.- per or pot through fine sieves, and allow them'to settleand cool;-after which I remove the dark matter found formed on thesurface, and heat the dark matter and the residue as follows:

\Vhen I wish to make paint, I take the residue lastly described andgrind or mix'with it'suflicient oil to convert it into a properconsistance for puggiug and grinding, after which the resultant mass isto be ground very fine, when it is in a fit state to mix with and formthe base of any desired color, and, after so mixing, can then be treatedwith turpentine, oil, and driers, in the usual manner.

When I wish to make varnish, I take the dark or surface matter describedabove, and add one hundredweight .(cwh) to three humlredweightof-lin'secd or other oils thereto.

This amalgamation I place-into a varnish copper or pot, and boil up to300 or 400 Fahrenheit. I then draw the fires and remove the product(varnish) to vats or cisters, to clarity in the usual way.

What I claim is g The preparation of paint and varnish of theingredients, in the proportions,'and by the process, substantially'asset forth and described in the above specification.

G. F. OORNEIZIUS.

Witnesses:

R. BOYD, 117 Mount Street, E. MAYHEW, 67 Strand, W. (J.

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